Santa Clara: Algorithm Intuition

Data structure intuition is something that develops naturally for most software developers. In all languages, we rely heavily on standard containers and collections. Need fast insertion/lookup? Hashmap. Need a sorted data structure that stores unique values? Set. Duplicate values? Multiset. And so on.

However, most software developers don't develop algorithm intuition quite as easily. Algorithms aren't taught as widely as data structures are, and aren't relied on as heavily. This talk aims to introduce some STL algorithms, show how they are commonly used, and show how by developing intuition about them (+ a little help from lambdas), you can unlock their true potential.

About the Speaker:

After graduating in 2014, Conor Hoekstra worked in Toronto, Canada for 4 years at a insurance software company where he slowly transitioned from actuary to software developer. Five months ago, he moved down to Sunnyvale to work for Amazon. He has 5 years of professional C++ experience and is passionate about algorithms and modern C++. He also has a YouTube Channel where he covers solutions to competitive coding problems and more: https://www.youtube.com/c/codereport